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2023.11.02
Exploring galaxy dark matter with dynamical models using combined stellar and HI kinematics
The dynamical modelling technique is one of the major methods to measure the dark matter distribution in galaxies. Due to the degeneracy of baryonic and dark matter and the limitation of extended tracers in galaxies, accurate measurements of dark matter distribution in large sample of galaxies are still inadequate. We introduce our method to constrain the dark matter distribution in galaxies wi...
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2023.10.31
Understanding the galaxy formation and metal-enrichment in the view of gas-regulator framework
Star-forming galaxies are actively accreting gas from surrounding materials during the cosmic time, while the feedback from star formation on the other hand blows the gas away as well as enriches the inter-stellar/-galactic medium. The interplay between inflow, outflow and star formation is then the key to understand the formation and evolution of star-forming galaxies, as well as the relevant...
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2023.10.23
An Overview of Stellar Evolution and Pollution in AGN Disk (SEPAD) and their Implication on the Stellar Dynamics in the Galactic Center and around other Supermassive Black Holes
Extended regions of accretion disks around supermassive black holes in bright AGNs are prone to gravitational instability, star formation and stellar dynamical evolution with feedback to the disks' structure. Spectroscopic data provide vital clues on the stellar and residual black hole populations. Their dynamical interaction with each other, their natal disks, and other massive companions in a...
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2023.09.04
Stellar Object Formation and Evolution in AGN Disks
Study of stellar objects embedded in AGN accretion disks around massive Black Holes have been motivated by i) the disk of stars that formed in-situ in the galactic center; ii) the redshift independence of metallicity in AGN disks, which also suggest in-situ pollution; iii) massive LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave sources that possibly evolved in a gas rich environment, and iv) quasi-periodic erupt...
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2023.08.31
Probing Galaxy Formation in the Cosmic Web at z~3: A View with the James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxies are not isolated islands in the Universe. Across the cosmic time, they assemble and evolve while frequently interacting with the ambient cosmic gas, namely the circum- and inter-galactic media (CGM/IGM), which belongs to the large-scale structure named the cosmic web. However, specifically what roles this large-scale environment plays in galaxy formation remains as a key open question ...
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